Prince Harry’s ‘bombshell’ BBC interview

Sir Geoffrey Vos’s judgment last week “was delivered politely and calmly”, said Hugo Vickers in The Independent, bringing to an end a years-long legal battle over Prince Harry’s security. The Court of Appeal judge found that the decision to downgrade Harry’s police protection after he stepped back from royal life in 2020 was legally justified – though he said he understood Harry’s fears and his “sense of grievance”.

Harry had lost, and at this point, anyone else in his position would have retreated to quietly nurse their wounds (and pay their significant legal fees). But not Harry, said Rebecca English in the Daily Mail. Instead, he gave a “frankly extraordinary” interview to the BBC in which he described the decision as a “good old-fashioned establishment stitch-up”, and claimed it wasn’t safe for him to bring his wife Meghan and their children to the UK. He even set hares running over the health of the King, who is battling cancer, saying: “I don’t know how much longer my father has. He won’t speak to me because of this security stuff.”